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PLATTEVILLE- The next event in the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Center for the Arts Performing Arts Series will be a performance by dance company Momix on Feb. 21. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in the Richard and Helen Brodbeck Concert Hall in the Center for the Arts building on campus.

Though they have recently garnered fame in a national commercial for Hanes, Momix is also known internationally for presenting work of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty. Momix is a company of dancer-illusionists who, under the direction of Moses Pendleton, have been celebrated for 20 years for their ability to conjure up a world of surrealistic images using props, light, shadow, humor and the human body.

In addition to stage performances worldwide, the company has frequently worked on special projects in film and television. Momix has made five Italian RAI television feature broadcasts to 55 countries (including the USSR and China) and has performed on Antenne II in France. Momix was also featured in PBS's "Dance in America" series. The company participated in the "Homage a Picasso" in Paris and was selected to represent the U.S. at the European Cultural Center at Delphi. Momix has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Spain, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, Denmark, England, Austria, Ireland, Holland, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia. The company is based in Washington, Conn.

In the work to be performed at UW-Platteville, Opus Cactus, tumbleweeds tumble, lizards leap and rattlesnakes slither when desert landscapes dance to life. The work is inspired by the giant saguaro cactus of the southwest.

Audiences may read more about Momix by visiting the Center for the Arts website atwww.uwplatt.edu/arts/cfa Tickets for this event are $22 for adults, $20 for senior citizens and UWP faculty, $10 for UWP students and $14 for children under 18.

Tickets are available through the University Box Office in the Center for the Arts. The University Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and can be reached by calling (608) 342-1298. The University Box Office is located in the lobby of the Center for the Arts building on the UW-Platteville campus on West Main Street. More information on the Performing Arts Series and other performance events can be found at uwplatt.edu/arts/cfa.

Contact: John Hassig, CFA director of Performing and Visual Arts, (608) 342-1267,hassigj@uwplatt.edu Prepared by: Kym Bliven, UWP Public Relations, (608) 342-1194,blivenk@uwplatt.edu